laravel 4 on shared hosting: PAGE NOT FOUND - laravel

Question

Due to a client issue i have to put a laravel 4 application on shared hosting service.But i followed this process at [laravelio]which includes.
Place the files of the laravel public folder i.e. css, img, js etc; into public_html folder (don't dump public folder instead dump the files and folders in it).
Put all the remaining folders & files into another folder, say 'laravelcore' and place the laravelcore folder in the root (/home5/username/)
Open index.php in the public_html folder and replace the following lines as mentioned
require DIR.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';
require __DIR__.'/../laravelcore/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once DIR.'/../bootstrap/start.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../laravelcore/bootstrap/start.php';
Open paths.php file in laravelcore/bootstrap and replace the following line
'public' => DIR.'/../public',
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../public_html',
which is suppose to work but when i visit the url i get this : The requested URL /login was not found on this server.please what may be the problem as i dont get it.may be its about configuring the .htacces file.
Any help would be appriciated.Thanks
website is at :benin1897.com
i just discovered that there is no .htaccess file in th public_html folder.could that be the problem...
here is my file tree
(/home/benincom)
etc
logs
mail
oysg
app
bootstrap
vendor
publicftp
public_html
css
js
error_log
readme
pakage.json
robots.txt
tmp
NOW AM LOGGED ON BUT LARAVEL THROWS ME ERROR
/ / |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Register The Auto Loader |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader | for our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll require it | into the script here so that we do not have to worry about the | loading of any our classes "manually". Feels great to relax. | / require DIR.'/../oysg/bootstrap/autoload.php'; / |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Turn On The Lights |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | We need to illuminate PHP development, so let's turn on the lights. | This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it | will load up this application so that we can run it and send | the responses back to the browser and delight these users. | / $app = require_once DIR.'/../oysg/bootstrap/start.php'; / |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Run The Application |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Once we have the application, we can simply call the run method, | which will execute the request and send the response back to | the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative | and wonderful application we have whipped up for them. | */ $app->run();

Answer 1

Do you've got the route for login handeld in your /app/routes.php like this?
Route::get('/login', 'LoginController#login');
Or if you don't use Controllers ( Which isn't an good idea, but for quick / dirty testing... )
Route::get('/login', function(){
echo "Now we're going to login on this awesome website!!!";
});
More about the Laravel Routes
Edit 1
The Controller file ( /app/controllers/LoginController.php ):
<?php
class LoginController extends BaseController {
public function login() {
echo "Now we are going to login in this awesome website!!!";
// return View::make('pages/overig/login');
}
}
You stated that there isn't an .htaccess file in you public folder. There should be one.
Create the file and insert this content and try it again:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 2

It sounds like the .htaccess file is not configured properly so you are not getting the 'pretty URLs'. Try copying the example file from here to your .htaccess http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/installation#pretty-urls.
In the meantime you should be able to access your application by prepending index.php. For instance /login wasn't working for you, but if you try /index.php/login it will work